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==Events== * 116 – Emperor Trajan sends ''laureatae'' to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia. *1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. *1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. *1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil. *1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War. *1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania. *1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister. *1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate . *1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established. *1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee. *1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War. *1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender. *1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). *1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded. *1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. *1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. *1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA. *1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund. *1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. *1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. *1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer . 299 British prisoners are freed. *1943 – World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov. * 1943 – World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway. *1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. *1957 – The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom. *1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. *1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. *1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. * 1961 – The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered. *1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people. *1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. *1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). *1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. *1985 – Hezbollah is founded. *1986 – The Soviet liner runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. *1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem. *1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. *1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. *1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov. * 1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan. *2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. * 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs. *2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. *2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. *2015 – A CSX train crashes in Mount Carbon, West Virginia resulting in large fires. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「February 16」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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